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Book Review


Command of Office: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush. By Stephen Graubard. (New York: Basic Books, 2004. xiv, 722 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-465-02757-1.)
The stated premise of this book is a timely one—an exploration of the nylon curtain of secrecy that has surrounded the twentieth-century (some would say modern) American presidency. The author's pedigree is unassailable: Stephen Graubard served as editor of Daedalus for three decades, has held teaching positions at Harvard University and Brown University, and has written well-reviewed studies of Henry Kissinger and George H. W. Bush. . . .
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